David, I got back into bicycling a few months ago and I have never owned or even ridden a FS bike. I went to a local park for a demo and rode the Rush and Prophet for a couple of hours. I had never heard of or seen a 'lefty' before, lol, but I was quite impressed with it. I also so like the simplicity of the single pivot beefy swingarm. I decided on the Rush because its lighter, lower, and it steers and accelerates quicker, than the Prophet. We don't have any mountains in S. Texas so I didn't need anything heavier. Anyway, you don't even notice that the lefty is a single stantion fork. Alignment is excellent with hands off the bar, and fork doesn't tend to swing to one side unless you pick it up over head to place in truck, lol!

That Eli is a great riding trailbike. I loved mine, but I cracked two frames where the lower seatstay connects to the main frame. Keep an eye on those welds. If you need a rear swing arm, bushings, or any of the linkage assembly shoot me an e-mail.

I really like the van36, it's very plush, hold its line on the rough and very forgiving on drops and jumps. I bought the Nomad as a one bike to do it all especially my riding stlye is becoming more agressive/light FR.

I like the HA of the bike with the Nixon for all around riding (I'm still climbing), it's steeper than the 36. It is better in climbing. For now it is enough for what I'm doing.

Thanks man

haven't been out on the new wheels yet, but when I had my other wheelset on and I ride it it was effing sweet. I am coming from a 4 year old Trek 4300 HT so any suspension would feel nice, but this is amazing. Still trying to work around the too low A-to-C of the fork though.

I am thinking of going to the All Mountain 1 or 2 soon enough. (upgradeitis, ain't it a b1tch?)

bullit with a funky paint job

Finally got the forks on, but I still got a few upgrades to make (brakes, wheels).

Flat black paint NEVER gets clean, even with scrubbing. It looked so cool when in was fresh.

I think I stumbled onto something pretty sweet with the truck bed liner on the rear triangle. When I got the frame, it had bad chainslap wear and lots of dings-- I didn't have the time or money to get a real paintjob so I went for it black hammerite and a ten dollar can of bed liner. I couldn't get the frame apart so I left the "guts" the original trans red and thought it came out pretty sweet.

I'll ask it again, to see if I get a response this time: why don't we include total cost in the AM setup specs? I'm conjecturing this is an unpopular spec because some would rather their significant other not glimpse the grand total of his/her habit.

I'll ask it again, to see if I get a response this time: why don't we include total cost in the AM setup specs? I'm conjecturing this is an unpopular spec because some would rather their significant other not glimpse the grand total of his/her habit.